![]() After he is talked into accepting the directorial assignment by Virginia (June Schreiner), his actor wife, and gloms on to her suggestion that he transfer the Scottish Play to a stylized Haiti where voodoo priestesses fill in for the Weird Sisters, Welles behaves badly as an obsessive egomaniac who drinks to excess (and beyond), makes major casting decisions with a whim of iron, drives his cast - composed of a few professional performers backed by untrained novices - with little regard for their emotional state, is “inappropriate” (as he puts it, one of the film’s few dialogue anachronisms) with a female cast member, and, not surprisingly, chronically neglects his wife. The movie benefits greatly by subsequently minimizing any racial insensitivity on his part - but that doesn’t mean Welles is depicted in an altogether flattering light. ![]() Welles initially turns down the gig, questioning how many Harlem residents would flock to a Shakespearean tragedy.
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